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Postpartum hemorrhage after delivery occurs when there is a loss of more than 500 ml of blood after a vaginal delivery or 1000 ml of blood following a C-section. If the heavy bleeding is not controlled it can lead to shock, loss of ability to have future pregnancies, permanent brain damage or maternal death.

Symptoms of postpartum hemorrhage may include:

Uncontrolled bleeding

A drop in blood pressure

Increased heart rate

If bleeding is due to hematoma, a collection of blood outside a blood vessel, swelling and pain in the vaginal or perineal area may occur as well.

For decades, transvaginal mesh has been surgically implanted in women across the nation and world to treat organ prolapse and urinary incontinence. For some women, the plastic medical device was helpful. But for tens of thousands – far too high a percentage for the vaginal mesh products to be considered safe -- the mesh eroded after it was implanted. Subsequent surgeries were unsuccessful in removing these “shards.” Women were left in severe pain, particularly when trying to have sexual intercourse, a condition known as dyspareunia.

In recent years, these injured women have fought back, filing thousands of lawsuits claiming the ...

It happens roughly every seven seconds in the United States – someone is hurt on the job. In a year’s time, America’s working men and women will suffer 4.6 million injuries while at work, according to the National Safety Council. More than 5,000 will die.
Some of these injuries are not the fault of an employer: a clumsy act produces a bruise or a cut, overexertion leads to a bad back. Yet many serious injuries and deaths can be traced to a lack of training, poor supervision or an absence of safety procedures or devices in the workplace.
Take the case of sanitation worker Jose Natal at the Devault Foods meat processing plant...

PICC lines are used to provide long term intravenous access to administer IV medications, fluids, electrolytes or antibiotics. The lines are placed by doctors, nurses and nurse practitioners who must be aware of the potential dangers these central lines can cause. If complications are not diagnosed and treated properly, serious injury or even death could result.

When Robert Kraft was arrested recently for allegedly soliciting prostitution in Florida, the story not only brought unwanted attention to the billionaire owner of the NFL New England Patriots, it also focused on the epidemic of human sex trafficking. As USA Today put it: “The more significant story is that of the women whose names we may never know, Chinese immigrants who police believe were lured to America with the promise of jobs, but instead found themselves in ‘sexual servitude.’” The problem is more widespread than only immigrants brought to the United States under false pretenses but also American citizens kidnapped or...

Medicare and Medicaid account for roughly $1 trillion in federal spending annually. That’s a lot of money. And wherever there is a lot of money, there are those who will try to steal it.

The AARP reports that at about 10 percent of Medicare funding – or some $60 billion, roughly the budgets of the Department of Homeland Security and NASA combined – is stolen or misdirected each year, and some experts believe the total is much more, perhaps as much as 20 or 30 percent annually – or close to $200 billion -- in fraud...

Erb’s palsy is a nerve injury that can occur during birth when the nerves in a baby’s upper arm are stretched, torn or damaged. Many babies with Erb’s palsy cannot move their arms or shoulders and some babies are unable to move their hands or fingers.

Erb’s palsy is most often a result of shoulder dystocia, a complication in which an infant’s shoulders become stuck in the mother’s pelvis. The size of the baby is a common cause for...

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease that afflicts people - often athletes - who have suffered severe and repeated head trauma.

Repeated brain trauma triggers progressive degeneration of brain tissue and/or the build-up of Tau protein that can disrupt the brain’s ability to communicate with other cells. These alterations in the brain can begin months, years or even decades after brain trauma or the end of active athletic...

The Timothy Piazza Anti-Hazing Act has been selected as one of the five “most impactful” laws enacted in Pennsylvania in 2018 by the online publication BillyPenn (www.billypenn.com). “Moved by the death of Penn State student Timothy Piazza, who suffered fatal injuries during fraternity initiation rituals, the legislature passed a...

All are contained in Pennsylvania’s Act 80 of 2018, also known as the Timothy J. Piazza Anti-Hazing Law, the measure enacted in an effort to deter similar future tragedies as that which claimed the life of the 19-year-old Penn State fraternity pledge for whom the law is named.

"I am proud to sign this new law that will make our colleges and universities safer,” said Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf at a...

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